Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the average time taken for a reply to be issued to a complaint submitted to the Independent Case Examiner regarding the equalisation of the state pension age.
The average time taken to respond to complaints about the equalisation of state pension age, from the point at which the investigation of the complaint commenced, is currently 9.75 weeks.